Eve Systems Announces Redesigned Eve Aqua NEWS – MacSources

Solid, sleek and quiet – Meet the redesigned, redesigned Eve Aqua

Eve Systems, the renowned innovator in the global smart home industry, today announced the third generation of Eve Aqua, its award-winning intelligent irrigation controller powered by Apple HomeKit technology. The intelligent water controller Eve Aqua activates your irrigation system via your iPhone, Siri or the integrated button and switches off automatically. Quickly set schedules in the Eve app and let Eve Aqua water your garden and patio plants—automatically, without the need for an internet connection, bridge, or gateway. Eve Aqua is also part of Eve’s world-leading product portfolio that supports HomeKit via Thread and leverages a HomePod mini or the new Apple TV 4K to make your smart home more responsive and robust.

Stunning, powerful and quiet

The new Eve Aqua builds on its predecessor by incorporating new design options both inside and out that enhance form and function. The completely redesigned Eve Aqua swings with a space gray body and a matte black front. It replaces previous onboard mechanisms with a brass faucet connector and solenoid valve for improved durability, better leak protection and near-silent operation.

“Eve Aqua looks stunning and makes smart gardening easy, safe and enjoyable,” said Jerome Gackel, CEO of Eve Systems. “Thread eliminates the need for a digital bridge, while the brass faucet adapter ensures a rock-solid physical connection. And of course our beautiful Eve app brings everything together and makes planning and monitoring consumption a breeze.”

Enjoy your garden

Eve Aqua is compatible with all common hose systems and multi-channel water distributors such as Gardena – and offers 7 watering periods. It turns your standard outdoor faucet into a smart water outlet, allowing you to keep your grass green and your plants happy and healthy – even when you’re away.

Ready for the smart home of the future

The new generation of Eve Aqua is one of 14 products in the Eve portfolio that supports Thread, a technology that is a pillar of Matter – the smart home standard of the future. Thread-enabled Eve products – including Eve Aqua – receive free over-the-air firmware updates so you can use them with other Matter ecosystems like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Samsung SmartThings. This technology makes your smart home faster, more reliable and increases its range: Simply position a full-threaded device such as Eve Energy as close as possible to your Eve Aqua. Eve Energy then acts as a router and forwards data packets from Eve Aqua. So Eve Aqua is always ready to hand – everywhere in your garden.

Technical specifications

• Requirements: iPhone or iPad with the latest version of iOS/iPadOS; A HomePod or Apple TV (4th generation or later) is required as a home hub to control this HomeKit-enabled product automatically and remotely. Notifications away from home require a home hub
• Thread: 3⁄4 inch
• Operating Range:4°C-50°C/39°F-122°F
• Pressure: Min. 1 bar / 14.5psi – Max. 5 bar / 72.5psi
• IPX4 water resistance
• UV protection
• Power: 2x replaceable AA batteries
• Wireless connection: Bluetooth Low Energy, thread
• Dimensions: 77 x 95 x 128mm/3.03 x 3.74 x 5.04in

Prices & Availability

The third generation of Eve Aqua is available today $149.95 / $219.95 CAD from the Eve Store and later from Amazon and the Apple Store online.

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About thread

Thread technology is specifically designed for smart home applications to improve connectivity between products. Now HomeKit devices can communicate not only via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, but also via Thread. The big difference with this technology is that Thread creates a mesh network. It also allows lights, thermostats, outlets, sensors and more to communicate with each other without the constraint of having to go through a central hub like a bridge. That’s because a threaded network doesn’t need one. If a single device fails, the data packets are simply forwarded to the next one in the mesh.

about matter

Matter is a new smart home protocol jointly developed by Amazon, Apple, Google, Eve and many other manufacturers to finally eliminate incompatibilities in the smart home. Matter-certified products can be easily integrated into your smart home. Your whole family can effortlessly control your home with any device using a smartphone or voice assistant. That’s because Matter doesn’t mind if you’re using an iPhone, Android device, Alexa-enabled smart speaker, Google Assistant, or Siri.

Maximum privacy

Eve does not operate a manufacturer cloud and thus enables a 100% private smart home. Eve does not collect your personal information by forcing you to set up an account or register your products. All communication is fully encrypted and is only transmitted directly between your Eve product and iPhone, iPad or Home Hub. Your data is never analyzed or used for advertising purposes – because it is only accessible to you.